Units of measurement A unit of measurement is a definite magnitude (mathematics), magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity. Any other quantity of that kind can ...

used in

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and neighbouring countries include the ''

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'', a unit of

mass Mass is an intrinsic property of a body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the quantity of matter in a physical body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physics. It was found that different atoms and different elementar ...

, and the ''gantang'', a unit of

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catty The catty, kati or , pronounced as jin in Mandarin and gan in Cantonese, is a traditional Chinese unit of mass used across East and Southeast Asia, notably for weighing food and other groceries in some wet markets, street markets, and shops ...

''"Kati" entry
at A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English. equals 0.6 g. Another unit is ''

picul A picul or tam is a traditional Asian unit of weight, defined as "as much as a man can carry on a shoulder-pole". History The word ''picul'' appeared as early as the mid 9th century in Javanese. Following Spanish, Portuguese, British and m ...

'' which equals 60 g.新华字典 (''

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''), Peking, 1984.

Volume

* The ''gantang'' is equivalent to 4.54609 cubic decimetres. * One ''cupak'' (alternative archaic spelling: ''churpak'') was 1/4 of a gantang or 1.1365225 cubic decimetres. * One ''leng'' equals 568.26125 cubic centimetres. * One ''chentong'' equals 284.130625 cubic centimetres.

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